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The Knicks forward touched on Lin, the Knicks' future and the incident that kept him out of two playoff games in an interview with Fox Radio Day Break (via Sports Radio Interviews.)

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Stoudemire enjoyed watching Lin, who came out of nowhere to take the Knicks, NBA and at least part of New York City by storm last season. The Knicks opted not to match the Houston Rockets' offer sheet to the young point guard, so Linsanity at Madison Square Garden is over for good.

“Jeremy had a great 15 or 20 games when he played. Those were some pretty phenomenal games and what he did out there was…you can’t take nothing from him, so the hype was well deserved. I mean he really played well for us and he put us back in the playoff mind frame. It was great to watch," Stoudemire said.

As for the post-Game 2 run-in with a piece of glass that led to his missing part of the Knicks' first-round loss to the Miami Heat, Stoudemire said it came from a place of frustration and was more of an accident than assumed.

“It wasn’t a punch at all actually. It was more like a slap against the wall, but I caught the edge of the fire extinguisher. Some people think I balled my fist up and punched through a glass fire extinguisher, which is totally opposite of the truth," he said.